I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!